I am very often asked this question by affiliates in my home business network, and almost every time it happens, I just shake my head in pity and disbelief. They just don't get it...

Where DO you find time to run, manage and promote your home based business? I honestly don't know. I know one thing for sure; you can never really "find" time; you must "make time".

Many who are new to concept of running a home based business suffer what I like to call "Indecision Syndrome". They have not made up their minds that they WANT or NEED a home based business, and my friend let me tell you, until you have made a decision you will never have time on your side.

You will never be able to devote even 1 hour to building a business for yourself if you don't have sense of urgency, and if you don't understand what a home based business can do for your life and your family in long term.

Here's what people who claim they can't "find" time do; they put least priority on their business. Everything else in life seems more important to them and they generally place their home based business last in in order of daily importance, such as this:

1) Spend 45 minutes in a jam 2) Go to work and slug for their boss 3) Hangout with friends a local pub after work 4) Spend 45 minutes in a jam 5) Get home and cook dinner 6) Do all domestic chores 7) Watch a few hours of TV 8) Get ready for next day of work 9) Sit on their PC and read sports news 10) Devote rest of their time to their home based business

If you’re one of those that feel you have "no time" for your home based business then I challenge you to tell me this is not at least somewhat true. Prove me wrong. Make me eat my words. Chances are you'll find that difficult to do...

Guilty as charged, right… :)

If you prioritize your hours in such a way, how do you even realistically expect to "find time"? How do you realistically expect to "Be your own boss" and have "Financial Freedom"?

The truth is anyone who REALLY wants to build a home based business must make a conscious decision that they are going to do it no matter what it takes. After that life-changing decision is made, there has to be sacrifice...

I can almost hear you say "Huh? Sacrifice? Sacrifice what?"

You have to sacrifice time you spend doing non-productive and non-income-generating activities everyday, and replace gained time to do really important tasks. If you're serious about making time for your business, there is no other way. You'll be amazed at how much you can achieve.

Stuck in a jam?

Do web surfers really bookmark websites anymore? A good friend and very successful marketer online recently said to me, "Ron, bookmarks are a complete waste of time." It was said so matter-of-factly, that we were off onto some other topic in next breathe.

A little later, as I was returning to Breakaway Marketing World Headquarter, this very brief conversation popped back into my head and I asked myself... "Is he right?" "Are bookmarks a complete waste of time?" I visualized favorites list that I've developed in my own browser's memory bank and I thought if I lost that list, I'd have to reconstruct it and I utilize my favorites folders constantly.

Bookmarks aren't a complete waste of time, especially considering that it only takes a couple minutes of your time to set up a bookmark link that will put your bookmark at top of favorites list every time.

There's a little trick that I'll share with you that you've probably never seen before and you can download a text file with exact scripts to modify for your own use.

We're going to shift gears from bookmarks to autoresponders for a second, and as you follow along you'll see connection. Trust me.

When I set up a new autoresponder series I always incorporate following copy into first message. Here's what it might look like...

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Hi New Autoresponder Subscriber,

Welcome. Thank you. Congratulations. This is just super!

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